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Clinical Staging in Carcinoma of the Prostate: Current Aspects

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Malignancies of the Genitourinary Tract

Part of the book series: Recent Results in Cancer Research ((RECENTCANCER,volume 126))

Abstract

Radical prostatectomy (RP) and megavolt radiotherapy are assumed to be effective in the treatment of localized carcinoma of the prostate (CaP). Several studies have demonstrated that where there is extracapsular and seminal vesicle infiltration, or lymph node metastases, unfavorable results are associated with local treatments [4,15,19,30,65]. Report by some authors, however, in patients with locally advanced disease or lymph node metastases suggest a beneficial effect with RP even in more advanced tumor stages [46,62,68,69]. Tumor debulking by inductive antiandrogen treatment with subsequent RP represents another approach to curing patients with metastatic disease. The advent of new therapeutic strategies and the introduction of modern imaging modalities has led to the question of whether current staging procedures still satisfy clinical requirements. The aim of this manuscript is to analyze the accuracy of modern clinical staging modalities and to evaluate their possible impact on the treatment of patients with CaP.

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Schmitz-Dräger, B.J., Ebert, T., Ackermann, R. (1993). Clinical Staging in Carcinoma of the Prostate: Current Aspects. In: Ackermann, R., Diehl, V. (eds) Malignancies of the Genitourinary Tract. Recent Results in Cancer Research, vol 126. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-84583-3_3

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